In Hollywood, artificial intelligence-equipped beings run amok to take control of the world and the human population. In enterprises, the integration of AI into a growing number of software tools, powerful processors, and huge amounts of data will generate $11.1 billion in sales of AI systems for enterprise applications by 2024, compared with $202.5 million ...Full article
Within about six months, SGI doubled the number of sockets on its SGI UV for SAP HANA and is awaiting SAP's certification on the next iteration of its appliance. Today, SGI disclosed it has expanded SGI UV for SAP HANA to 12 and 16 sockets, providing enterprises with up to 12 terabytes of in-memory computing ...Full article
The API marketplace Mashape has released its Kong application development tool as an open source platform that is billed as among the first management layers for emerging micro-services. The San Francisco-based company said its open source release would eliminate what it calls the "busy work" of rewriting code for backend logic. The management tool would ...Full article
Amazon Web Services dominates the cloud infrastructure services market, owning a bigger share than all its largest competitors combined. AWS holds 29 percent of the market, according to a new report by Synergy Research Group. The company also is growing faster than the overall market, although it was not the fastest growing business in the ...Full article
Enterprises risk losing almost $2 trillion due to downtime and data loss but the vast majority of organizations remain unprepared to mitigate this costly damage. A recent study found enterprises suffered a collective $1.7 trillion loss due to downtime and data loss in 2014 alone. The research indicated that although there has been a decrease ...Full article
Question: What makes the latest version of Siri, the personal assistant and "knowledge navigator" in the Apple iOS, tick? Answer: The Apache Mesos open-source cluster manager, according to a Mesosphere blog post. Apple developers announced the shift to Apache Mesos to help run the third generation of Siri during an April 23 gathering at the ...Full article
SAS kicked off its annual SAS Global Forum with a flurry of new product releases and research reports focused on bringing together business users and data scientists, and unifying the analytics process. Although MarketsandMarkets predicts the business intelligence and analytics software market will reach $26.8 billion by 2020, 72 percent of executives were dissatisfied with ...Full article
Delphi Automotive generated 2014 revenue of $17 billion and operates in 33 countries, but the leading developer of solutions that make vehicles safer, greener, and more connected relies on a Silicon Valley mentality and start-up's agility to continually innovate and create new products. Sales of Delphi's advanced safety technology, which is often software-based, are predicted ...Full article
Former star NFL linebacker Patrick Willis is trading his football spikes for a corner office with a Silicon Valley storage technology company. San Jose-based Open Source Storage said it has appointed Willis executive vice president for strategic partnerships for the media, entertainment and sports sectors. Willis is listed as an owner Open Source Storage along ...Full article
Dell rolled out a series of "open networking" switches and platforms for software-defined datacenters this week designed to widened the data pipe to as much as 100-GbE switching speeds. Dell also announced the addition to IP Infusion Inc., the software-defined networking specialist, to its list of open networking partners. Dell said its Z9100 multi-rate fabric ...Full article
To help enterprises manage and optimize their increasingly distributed applications, datacenters, legacy applications, and frameworks, Univa today took the wraps off Universal Resource Broker, a workload optimization solution for high-performance, containerized, and shared datacenters. The solution, which is powered by Univa Grid Engine, enables organizations to create one virtual, high throughput, high-performance compute pool out ...Full article
Software-defined networks are getting a nudge from hardware vendors, including chipmakers. With an eye toward advancing SDN deployments that are expected to ramp up this year, Freescale Semiconductor introduced a network services switching platform this week that is described as equal parts traditional networking switch and secure white box component. Developed in conjunction with manufacturing ...Full article
Collaboration has extended to the IT department through growing adoption of DevOps, an approach whereby developers and operations people work together efficiently and effectively. But without careful planning and investment, enterprises will not successfully create the DevOps culture necessary to succeed. Just as IT departments have seen the best-laid collaboration software implementations sometimes fall short ...Full article
Red Hat, among the most vigorous proponents of delivering applications via Linux containers, acknowledges that enterprise adoption of container technology hinges on trusting the platform. Only then would true portability of applications be achieved and, with it, greater use of container technologies like Docker in production environments. Red Hat described its vision for working out ...Full article
Texas Instruments is challenging makers of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and targeting high-performance vertical markets with today's release of its Keystone-based 66AK2L06 System-on-Chip (SoC). The solution, which uses the JESD204B interface standard, cuts the total board footprint by 66 percent, according to TI. Using this standard also enables customers to create products with higher performance that use ...Full article
Cloud infrastructure providers are increasingly looking for ways to automate cloud security as more customers migrate to hybrid cloud configurations in which enterprises maintain an on-premise infrastructure for sensitive data and intellectual property. Hence, the market for companies offering automated security services like encryption and key management is booming as more IT vendors focus on ...Full article
Nothing teaches like experience. A new book from co-editors Merle Giles and Dr. Anwar Osseyran, Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices, takes readers on a lesson-filled tour of HPC deployment in industry. Giles and Osseyran provide an overview of HPC technology, an examination of HPC practices worldwide, and a compilation of HPC case histories ...Full article
Enterprise storage may have been simplified with the recent broad availability of Microsoft Azure Premium Storage. Under Microsoft's Premium plan, which Microsoft expanded late last week, enterprises' data is stored on solid state drives (SSDs). The program is designed for Azure virtual machine workloads, which need consistent high IO performance and low latency for tasks ...Full article
VMware today expanded its open source support when it unveiled Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project designed to extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications, and Project Photon, a lightweight Linux operating system. Both open source projects will integrate into the Palo Alto, Calif.-based vendor's unified platform for the hybrid cloud and will ...Full article
In a corporate nightmare turned reality, Wikileaks on Thursday posted a searchable database of all the Sony information hackers stole from the movie studio last year. "The Wikileaks Sony database is a perfect example of what can happen once this information is in the wild. It seems hard to believe that a country would form ...Full article
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